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haunt
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[ verb ] haunt like a ghost; pursue
Examples "Fear of illness haunts her" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)Meager and shabby by-products linger to haunt our memories of a once mighty protagonist ; a maladroit reharmonization of our National_Anthem ( The Star-Spangled_Banner ) ; a poor attempt to write an idiomatic jazz concerto ; a circus polka for elephants ; his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs ! |
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[ verb ] follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
Synonyms Examples "her ex-boyfriend stalked her" "the ghost of her mother haunted her" Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)One soft evening - that marvelous sea blessed time when the sun 's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything - Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Some sort_of nemesis was haunting his footsteps , he told us in a quavering voice - either an ape specter or Abe_Spector , a process_server , we could n't determine which . There 's some kind_of a nemesis haunting his footsteps '' . |
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[ noun ] a frequently visited place
Synonyms Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth_Street is a nice ten minute color film called `` Sunday_in_Greenwich_Village '' , a tour of the haunts and joints . (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)The place was evidently a familiar haunt and Claire wondered what other illicit loves had been celebrated in the comfortable rooms to which they were shown . Related terms |
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